Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.

I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.

I have the weirdest job. It's not every day that you get to stand up onstage and unload every ounce of your misanthropic bile onto a crowd of people, and they're like, "Cool! Hit us again!"

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record.

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exist

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.

Don't be a pepper on the eyes of people

Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.

The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings.

Life is an occasion...rise to it.

Whenever I see that ball coming my way I am just hungry to get it. When I get the chance to take it I try to score as much as I can.

There are two kinds of people in the world: Submissive and rebellious. The problem of the world is that majority is in the first category!

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.